Machine for interweaving curled horsehair.



A. R. BILLINGTON. MACHINE FOR INTERWEAVING CURLED HORSEHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED, AUG. 23. |916.

Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

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MACHINE FOR INTERWEAVING CURLED HORSEHAIR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.23, 1916.

Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

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ARTHUR lt. BILLINGTON, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 THE STRAND MACHIN- ERY COMPANY, 0F CHICAGO, ELLXNOIS, A CORPORATIGN OF ILLENUS.

MACHNE EUR INTERWEAVING CURLED HORSEHAXR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patmtedl (Pct, 1&3, lldll',

Application tiled August 23, 3.916. Serial No. MGA-75.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ARTHUR R. BILLInG- TON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State and has for one of its objects to provide an improved machine of this character whereby continuous sheets of fabric may be rapidly and quickly manufactured.

A further object is to provide an improved machine of this character which will be simple, durable and cheap in construction, and effective and eflicient in operation.

To the attainment of these ends and the accomplishment of other new and usefull objects as will appear, the invention consists in the features of novelty in substantially the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, and in which;

Figure 1, is a side elevation of an improved machine of this character for carrying this invention into operation.

Fig. 2, is a front elevation.

Fig. 3,- is a detail view as taken on line 3-3 Fig. 2.

Fig. 4, is a top plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 3.

Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and l2, are views showing the dierent steps in the method of interweaving the material.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the numeral 15 designates a support of any desired size and configuration having guides 16 thereon through which the uprights 1'? are adapted to freely slide. The uprights are connected by cross members 18,

19, forming a yoke and which yoke is given a vertical reciprocatory movement from a shaft 20, journaled in the supporting structure, and a connection between the shaft and the yoke, preferablyby means of an eccentric 22. lf desired one of these connections may be arranged on each side of the machine.l

A plurality of needles 23, are connected to the yoke, preferably to the cross member 19 thereof, and each needle is provided with an upwardly opening hook 24C. At predetermined intervals in the operation of the machine the needles are given a rotary motion for a purpose to be hereinafter set forth, and this is accomplished preferably by means of a pinion 25, secured to each needle, and with which pinions, a slidable rack 26, meshes, so that when the rack is shifted, the needles will be correspondingly rotated.

This shifting of the rack is preferably accomplished by means of a projection or cam surface 27, adjustably secured to a fixed support, and which surface is adapted to be engaged by an end 28, of the rack, or an antifriction roller journaled at that end, to shift the rack against the tension of an elastic member 29, which latter returns the rack after lit passes out of engagement with the cam surface, and thus the needles will be rotated first in one direction and then in the opposite direction. Obviously, power is supplied to the shaft 20 from any suitable source.

The material 30, is supplied in any suitable manner to the feed rolls 3l, 32, to be compressed thereby and then advanced to the rolls 33, 34, the latter being preferably in the form of spaced disks, and between adjacent pairs of disks, the needles are adapted to be reciprocated to interweave the material. From the rolls 33, 34, the finished fabric is delivered to rolls 35, 36, and from there out of the machine.

Motion is imparted to the rolls in any suitable manner, here shown as by means of a ratchet gear 37, connected with the shaft of the disk roll 33, and a pawl 38 connected with an arm 39.

A bar l0 to which the arm is pivotally connected, reciprocates through a suitable guide in the supporting structure, and is limited in its movement in one direction by an adjustable collar 41, which also serves as a means whereby the extent of feeding movement of the material may be varied, by varying the extent of movement of the rolls.

The end of the rod s0, is arranged in the path of movement of the cross member 18, of the yoke, upon its upward movement, and

each time the ratchet is operated, the feed roll will be moved.

rlFhe rolls 31, 36, and 32, 35, receive their motion respectively from the rolls 8e, 33, as

by sprocket chains 42, 43, and the disk rolls 33, 34, may be operatively connected by gears 44 45 2lhlis it will be seen that each time thev i tary motion will be imparted thereto in one direction, and each time they are elevated, a rotary motion will be given to them in the opposite direction.

The material being intermittently fed across the path of the reciprocatory movement of the needles, each time the needles are lowered, the material will be penetrated by the needles. After the needles have entered the material, a rotary movement will be given the needles, so that when they are raised they will grasp some of the material from beneath the surface of the material, and draw it through the body of the material to form a loop, see Figs. 5, and 6.

During the rising movement of the needles, they are given a rotary movement, and the material is then advanced by the feed rolls. By rotating the needles, the loop is given a twist, and the loop will be held upon the needle during its downward movement so that the needle will be moved through the loop. After the needle again penetrates the material, it is given another rotary motion and then raised, so that the needle will draw another portion of the material with it through the loop already formed to interweave that portion just drawn from the material into a new loop, with the old loop just reviously formed, as shown clearly in Figs. to 12.

This operation is repeated during the entire time that the material is being advanced by the feed rolls.

By rotating the needles, the material is prevented from dropping ofi' of the needles during their lowering movements and the old loop will not be picked up by the needles on their upward movements.

If it is desired to obtain merely a tufting operation, all that is necessary is to hold the needles against rotary movement, and this can beaccomplished by simply removing the cam surface 27, or adjusting it to a position that it will not be engaged by the end of the rack bar 26.

What is claimed as new is:

1. A machine of the character described embodying mechanism for feeding a bat of material, a reciprocatory needle, means for reciprocating the needle to cause the needle to impale the material and to withdraw therefrom to draw a portion of the material partially from the bat, and means for axially rotating the needle after withdrawal.

2. A machine of the character described embodying mechanism for feeding a bat of material, a reciprocatory needle, means for reciprocating the needle to cause the needle for intermittently actuating the said mechanism.

3. A machine of the character describedy embodying a reciprocatory needle having an upwardly opening hooked shaped portion, mechanism for feeding a bat of material across the path of movement ofthe needle, said needle being adapted to impale the material and to be withdrawn therefrom to grasp and draw a portion of the material from below the upper surface thereof, partially from the material to form a loop, and means for axially rotating the needle while in engagement with the loop to twist the loop and through which loop the needle is reciprocated.

4. A machine of the character described embodying a reciprocatory needle having an upwardly opening hooked shaped portion,

mechanism for feeding a bat of material across the pathv of movement of the needle, said needle being adapted to impale the material and to be withdrawn therefrom to grasp and draw a portion of the material from below the upper surface thereof, partially from the material to form a loop, means for axially rotating the needle while in engagement with the loop to twist the loop and through which loop the needle is reciprocated, and provisions embodying the last recited means for rotating the needle in the opposite direction to position the hooked shaped portion to pass through the previously formed loop without engaging the loop.

5. A machine of the character described embodying a plurality of parallel reciprocatory needles, means for feeding a bat of material across the path of reciprocation of the needles and embodying coperating rolls each embodying spaced coperating pairs of disks, said needles being adapted to be reciprocated between adjacent pairs of disks, to impale the material and to be withdrawn therefrom, to draw a portion of the material partially from the bat, means'for axially rotatin the needle after withdrawal, and means or intermittently actuating the disks to feed the material.

6. A machine of the character described embodying a plurality of parallel reciprocatory needles, means for feeding a bat of material across the path of reciprocation of the needles and embodying cooperating rolls each embodying spaced cooperating pairs of disks, said needles being adapted to be reciprocated between adjacent pairs of disks to impale the material and to be withdrawn therefrom, means for intermittently actuating the disks to feed the material, said needles having an upwardly opening hooked shaped portion to engage and partially withdraw a portion of the material from the bat, and means for imparting an axial rotation to the needles to twist the withdrawn portion of the material.

7. A machine of the'character described embodying a plurality of parallel reciprocatory needles, means for feeding a bat of material across the path ot' reciprocation of the needles and embodying coperating rolls each of which embodies spaced cooperating pairs of disks, said needles being adapted to be reciprocated between adjacent pairs of disks to impale the material and to loe withdrawn therefrom, means for intermittently actuating the disks to feed the material, said needles haring an upwardly opening hook shaped portion to engage and partially withdraw a portion of the material from the hat, and means for axially rotating the needles in one direction to twist the withdrawn portion of the material to form a through which the needle is adapted to be reciprocated, to withdraw another portion of the material through the loop, the last said means also operating to axially rotate the needles in the opposite direction.

8. |The method of interweaving curled horse hair, which consists in feeding a bat of material across the path of a reciprocatory needle, then reciprocating the needle to cause Jthe same to impale the material and withdraw a portion of the material partially from the supply to :term a loop, then twisting the needle to cause the loop to be twisted, then moving the needle through the loop in one direction to again impale the material, then twisting the needle into a position that it may be withdrawn from the loop, then withdrawing the needle from the supply to draw another portion of the supply partially from the supply and through the previously formed loop, and finally causing the needle and the material to be laterally displaced one with relation to the other.

ln testimony whereof l have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 19th day of August, A. 1916.

ARTHUR lt. Bll-J'llNG'lFUN.

Witnesses:

FRANK rl. linnn,

H. dooHUM, Jr. 

